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From: "Carlene M. Wojahn" <>
Subject: [WVWBTSVETS-L] [Fwd: [Fwd: Army of West Virginia]]
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:53:58 -0600


Here you go.

Carlene
Annette E Wetzel wrote:

> from "Encyclopedia of the Civil War," ed. by Patricia Faust
> "Union Amry and Department of West Virginia. Authorized 24 June 1863, the
> Union Department of West Virginia resulted from a subdivision of the
> Middle Department. The department comprised all of Maryland west of the
> Allegheny Mountains and the new state of West Virginia. BG Benjamin F.
> Kelley assumed command of the department with its army of 23,000 troops
> drawn from the VIII Corps. His responsibility included the protection of
> the B&O RR and its depots, operations against Confederate forces in the
> Shenandoah Valley and southwestern Virginia, and protection of property
> in the new Union state.
> MG Franz Sigel replaced Kelley 10 Mar 1864, undertaking in April a
> campaign southward up the Shenandoah Valley. Confederate forces under MG
> John C. Breckinridge, defeated Sigel's army in the Battle of New Market
> 15 May. While Sigel operated in the valley, Gen. George Crook marched
> through the Alleghenies in a raid on the Va & Tn RR.....
> Six days after Sigel's defeat at New Market, MG David Hunter succeeded to
> command of the department.....defeating a Southern force at Piedmont 5
> June and burning VMI and parts of Lexington before combining his troops
> with those of Crook's....Hunter was replaced 8 Aug by Crook.
> Crook's Army of West Virginia served under MG Philip H. Sheridan in the
> 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Confederate guerrillas, Capt. John H.
> McNeill's Rangers, captured Crook along with Kelley at their headquarters
> in Cumberland, MD 22 Feb 1865. Crook was replaced until 27 Feb by BG John
> D. Stevenson, who was suceeded by BG Samuel S. Carroll until 7 Mar 1865.
> MG Winfield S. Hancock directed the department until its disbandment 27
> June 1865."
>
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:10:58 -0600 "Carlene M. Wojahn"
> <> writes:
> >thomas wrote:
> >> Does anyone know the exact date for the forming of the Army of West
> >> Virginia.
>
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